We are trying to concieve-ing!

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Not only the women needed to relax, the men need to relax too! My masseur was telling me she've been trying for 3yrs and few months ago, her husband stopped working due to retrenchment and became a happy househusband.. She is now 4months pregnant.

But then, Singapore life how to stop working.. Maybe can go for a short holiday.

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Good morning TGIT.

Mxlo, yes gynae will do a transvaginal scan. You will need few visits within your cycle. Based on my own experience, first he wants to check my mense flow during 1st or 2nd day of AF. Based on your cycle pattern, he will have you revisit to scan your follies, ie those eggs brewing in your ovaries, just couple of days before you pop out egg (ie ovulation). He may ask you to do opk which will mark your coming ovulation. Meaning once you get a positive opk, visit him so he can scan you at the right moment. He will advice you when to go back to him (usually just a few days after your positive opk) whereby he will scan your ovaries again. He will have the expertise to tell if your egg did pop (or not).

Not sure of others’ experience is same same. Maybe mine a little different because I was on Gonal-F treatment. A self injection for egg production (similar to IVF kind. But in much smaller dosage).

Dragontail, sounds like what I had gone thru. Perhaps this is hw doc dignosed. Anyway I left it to his expertise.

Doc told me that I have to stop clomid and I got a feeling that he might asked me to do the injec to ovulate when I visit him again in dec...knowing him, he will keep things in suspends first when he is going to tell me something "scary"....

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Basically what the gynae looks out for are two things to determine one has ovulated. 1) corpus luteum - it’s the remain of the follie when the egg pops out. When doc can spot that corpus luteum, it means you ovulated. 2) thickening of lining – when one has ovulated, she will produce progesterone which also sends a signal to your body to thicken the uterus lining for aiding of possible conception/implantation. Our body is so amazing!

RD, hee your doc likes to play game with you? Yes I had the HCG shot to help me pop my egg. I did this treatment for 2 cycles.

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Nah... not painful. But then I have high pain threshold. :P But it's really just a quick jab on the butt. I also did self-inject on the gonal-F on the tummy for 2 cycles. First time about to do it I was super nervous. Read all instructions countless times but when doing it, garung gabok and did wrong. Haa. Subsequent jabs were a breeze.

I was considering IUI (not SO-IUI) though after the 2 failed cycles on the gonal-F. But I decided not to and take things more naturally because I didn't even like the emo part which the gonal-F did to me. I feel I wont feel comfortable going through such procedures any more

Yalor..he kinda want to avoid unnecessary anxiety and will only tell when things are cast n stone...

How many cycles so you need to do this?

Originally Posted by Dragontail:843071

Basically what the gynae looks out for are two things to determine one has ovulated. 1) corpus luteum - it’s the remain of the follie when the egg pops out. When doc can spot that corpus luteum, it means you ovulated. 2) thickening of lining – when one has ovulated, she will produce progesterone which also sends a signal to your body to thicken the uterus lining for aiding of possible conception/implantation. Our body is so amazing!

RD, hee your doc likes to play game with you? Yes I had the HCG shot to help me pop my egg. I did this treatment for 2 cycles.

Nah... not painful. But then I have high pain threshold. :P But it's really just a quick jab on the butt. I also did self-inject on the gonal-F on the tummy for 2 cycles. First time about to do it I was super nervous. Read all instructions countless times but when doing it, garung gabok and did wrong. Haa. Subsequent jabs were a breeze.

I was considering IUI (not SO-IUI) though after the 2 failed cycles on the gonal-F. But I decided not to and take things more naturally because I didn't even like the emo part which the gonal-F did to me. I feel I wont feel comfortable going through such procedures any more

RD, each cycle is a fresh one...on my injectable attempt. I did two cycles but didn't succeed. So I gave up because I dont see why I need to pump more money or effort into this treatment anymore if it doesn't work for me.

I wonder if so-iui has a series of pre counselling too. For ivf, there's pre counselling like what to expect. And how to manage the emotions if it wasn't successful etc. So you can see ivf is quite a leap...can be emotionally thrashing since expection from the couples is higher.

Maq, why you got unhappy experience fr Kandang Kerbau Hospital? The only thing I dont like is their sulky staffs fr clinic d and sonographer..that that cld be bcoz my apptm is always on monday..monday bluez..hehe

Originally Posted by Maqisa:843139

though I had my unhappy experience at Kandang Kerbau Hospital, I hve to admit their fertility treatment ie so-iui/ivf is still top. their success rate with iuf is one of the highest in sg.

Personal ones.. coz my blighted ovum detected there n I did d&c there what.. so hard then get e treasured bfp only to lose it within a months time... I met 2 sonographer. One pinoy suck big time yaya n aloof took so long durin very scan super uncomfortable the next local lady super pro n nice. 2 extreme. But e nurse I must admit fm clinic d to hos admittance staff all pro n warm. Doc wise, I dont really lke 1 frm e a& e